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Governments that view cheap labor as an instrument of growth already tend to implement anti-democratic practices; we should take into account that repression may increase even more in periods like this.

Turkey posted a two-decade high inflation rate of 61.14 percent in March.

"People ask for prices and then just leave," says a butcher as people complain about the high price of the Ramadan pita in Hakkari, one of the poorest provinces of Turkey.